To: TheDon
I was wondering just that! Arrested for his thoughts? As if jailtime is going to remove it!
I wonder if there's something else to it...
4 posted on
02/15/2007 11:15:17 PM PST by
CarrotAndStick
(The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
To: CarrotAndStick
Germans didn't learn anything from sending Hitler to jail?
Holocaust denial may be nuts, but criminal ? It's the kind of thing that makes otherwise insignificant people into martyrs for an unjust cause.
33 posted on
02/16/2007 12:14:45 AM PST by
EDINVA
To: CarrotAndStick
"I was wondering just that! Arrested for his thoughts? As if jailtime is going to remove it!
I wonder if there's something else to it..."
Yes. There's much more to it. Try the keyword, "denazification" in a search engine. That should lead you to information on how we prevented further guerrilla wars with Nazis after World War II. Germany has continued some of those policies since then in order to keep Nazism from rising to power again.
We should be doing something more like that in Islamo-fascist terrorist areas. Then in a couple more generations, people could complain about a lack of free speech for Islamo-fascists in their nations. IMO, that's what we'll be forced to do before the current War on Terror is finished. And BTW, many neo-Nazis and their religious identity crypto-Nazi friends have written their sympathies for Islamo-fascist regimes and against our military efforts against terrorism.
Propanganda for the purpose of murdering all people of one belief system works against free speech. Such propaganda is an incitement for mass murders. Freedom of speech is for the purpose of keeping freedom in free nations--not for starting genocidal, totalitarian governments. And fascists must ban any and all speech against their political efforts in order to hold on to their preferred kind of government for even a short time.
I'll put it this way. Would Islamists be allowed to incrementally publish propaganda in Delhi toward the extermination of all Hindus in India? Or would they be jailed for incitement? And would the government in India be wise to jail them for that? In my opinion, they would.
52 posted on
02/16/2007 4:45:33 AM PST by
familyop
(Essayons)
To: CarrotAndStick
The incitement charge is the only part that is plausibly portable; the right to some free speech.
142 posted on
02/16/2007 9:14:58 AM PST by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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